Stupid_Guitar t1_j6tqfei wrote on February 1, 2023 at 8:44 PM

Reply to comment by American_Stereotypes in An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyers shut it down. : NPR by persianphilosopher

I dunno, it's still essentially a high tech way of representing yourself. Probably not much worse off, in the case of fighting a traffic ticket, than if you decided to do it without a lawyer or a court-appointed lawyer (I'm sure they don't do that for traffic cases, maybe some other misdemeanor stuff though).

American_Stereotypes t1_j6tuag3 wrote on February 1, 2023 at 9:08 PM

That's partially why I'm so concerned. This tech will almost certainly be disproportionately used by people who are either unable to afford a real lawyer or who are distrustful of the legal system and lawyers, and those kinds of people are already extremely vulnerable and have a hard time navigating the legal system, even without shoddy unregulated technology supposedly helping them.

I'm sure we'll get to the point where this isn't a pipe dream one day, but that day ain't today, and in the meantime it could do a lot of damage to a lot of people, even in something as generally low-stakes as traffic court.